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The first frightening realization that I had to wrap my head around is that, for all the ways I naturally think in Perl, they think in XSLT.

Just…ponder that for a few minutes.

Nothing bizarre about that at all.:-) I can’t claim to be a decade-of-experience expert in XSLT as I can claim to be in Perl, but I am very good with the language, and I like it a whole lot. The syntax is dreadfully verbose, but at the semantic level – its computation model – it is extremely elegant. You can

I guess the thing I find frustrating about libxml2 is that I want a nice compact way of saying "Get me the one&only FOO child element from the one&only BAR element of the document." Am I missing something?

It's also possible - moderately likely, even - that I'll convert my parsing to a SAX model, and that will make that particular frustration go away.

However, the real problem I have with libxml2 at the moment is that it doesn't like the TEI RelaxNG files, and I don't know whose fault that is. It me